| 100% | NSEC | 4 | It takes light about one to travel one ft. in a vacuum |
| 62% | NSEC | 4 | About how long it takes light to travel a ft. |
| 54% | NSEC | 4 | Time it takes light to travel a ft., roughly |
| 54% | NSEC | 4 | Time it takes light to travel a ft., approximately |
| 45% | NSEC | 4 | Approx. time it takes for light to travel one foot |
| 41% | SOUNDWAVE | 9 | It can't travel in a vacuum |
| 40% | MSEC | 4 | How long it takes light to travel 186 mi. |
| 40% | PSEC | 4 | Time it takes light to travel .3 mm: Abbr. |
| 39% | GIGAWATTS | 9 | It takes 1.21 to time travel in Back to the Future |
| 39% | CASTIRONSTOMACH | 15 | It takes a lot to get one upset |
| 39% | HORSEFLY | 8 | It would take a tiny jockey to ride one |
| 38% | LAPS | 4 | It takes 4.5 _____ to cover 500 yards in a pool |
| 38% | PSEC | 4 | Time it takes for light to travel .3 mm |
| 38% | NEWSCYCLE | 9 | Time it takes to forget about a story, say |
| 37% | ADOPT | 5 | To legally take in a child or pet as one's own |
| 37% | FRESHAIR | 8 | One might take a walk to get it |
| 37% | UTILE | 5 | It's useful to draw one in Scrabble if you have a Q |
| 37% | NICEANDSLOW | 11 | How Usher wants to take it in a 1998 #1 hit |
| 37% | TOOTH | 5 | It's bad to get a hole in one |
| 36% | ALFIE | 5 | To whom Dionne Warwick asked "What's it all about?" in a 1967 hit |
| 36% | EON | 3 | Amount of time it takes for a red light to change, hyperbolically |
| 36% | TMI | 3 | "Eww, I don't want to hear about it," in a text |
| 36% | ACELA | 5 | It travels from D.C. to Boston in about seven hours |
| 35% | CLOVER | 6 | It's lucky to find a four-leaf one in the garden |
| 35% | VOWOFSILENCE | 12 | A daylong one is taken in April to protest discrimination of LGBTQ students |
| 35% | EIGHTBULBJOKE | 13 | Gag about how many people it takes to change the devices of a whole chandelier, maybe? |
| 35% | FROST | 5 | "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by" poet |
| 35% | KAYAK | 5 | *Sled alternative for Christmas in July ... and a watercraft one might use to travel the rapids |
| 34% | HIJACKER | 8 | One involved in a travel holdup |
| 34% | DRAW | 4 | It adds one point to a soccer team's standing in the English Premier League |